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I'm not following the article. It makes a point of distinguishing between 'corporate workers' and warehouse/delivery/logistics/etc folks. Then it claims the reason for this rif is because they expanded to meet the demands of the pandemic, most of which would be in the warehouse sector, and now that that demand is gone, they need to reduce the workforce. If so, why are they reducing the corporate workers?

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The last paragraph makes the connection:

> When demand started to wane with customers moving back to shopping in stores, Amazon initiated a broad cost-cutting review to pare back on units that were unprofitable

Waning demand triggered cost-cutting, which focused on unprofitable orgs.

Every thousand warehouse/delivery workers you add requires several office workers for HR etc.

So, the separation isn’t completely clean.

Plus the warehouse has insane voluntary turnover, so they can reduce pretty quickly just by slowing down hiring, while the corporate jobs are a bit cushier and need to actually be let go.

Yeah, fair. They mention recruiters specifically by name. Some of that could also fall into the retail operations bucket as well.

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